Title: Explain the engineering design process.
Course: Advanced Drawing and Design (21149) > Section: Focusing on Design

Explanation may include the following iterative steps:

- Identify the need or opportunity for an engineering solution by listing the criteria and constraints.
- Establish a system for documentation of workflow.
- Research potential solutions to the design problem.
- Generate (brainstorm) multiple solutions to the design problem.
- Justify an optimal solution to the design problem.
- Create a model or prototype for the chosen solution to the design problem, using appropriate materials and processes.
- Test the solution to the design problem, using mathematical, conceptual, and/or physical modeling, simulating, and optimizing.
- Redesign the solution.
- Test the alternate solution.
- Communicate the solution and results.

Process/Skill Questions:

- Why is it important to follow an iterative design process?
- Why is it important to repeat the steps of the design process?
- When is it necessary to refine the design?
- What is concurrent engineering and how does it affect the design process?